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Friday, August 29, 2014

A work truck with an
attached trailer drove by. Roped to the side of the
trailer was a large teddy bear. Seriously.

I'm reading an extraordinary
work by Active Dreaming creator Robert Moss, whose marriage of dreamwork and
shamanism delivers a resounding "YES!" in every line. The
Boy Who Died and Came Back might be a template for crafting a fully
awakened life, using a lot more than whatever percentage of our gray matter is
currently online.

One of Moss's recurring
themes, in his dreams and waking life, is communion with our animal kin. Even
if we aren't familiar with animal totems, or don't consciously subscribe to the
idea that animal medicine can support our growth, strapping your stuffed bear
to the outside of a truck is symbolic of the way we live: divorced from
introspection and wisdom, fearful of solitude or change, and suspicious of
non-linear forms of healing — all of which Bear signifies.

The joy of how Moss lives
and teaches is palpably freeing; each creatively named mini chapter is overflowing
with dream wisdom and transformative ideas, amusingly presented by someone who
understands the cosmic truth that Life is eternal, and the more we connect
across realities and beyond belief systems, the more we expand our
opportunities for Divine humor. I experienced this often on my awakening
journey, which is only one reason Moss's work rings with verity for me.

I began cawing to crows and
listening to their replies more than twenty years ago; together with
Bear, Panther, and, of
course, Snake (the ultimate symbol of transformation), Crow/Raven is one of my power animals. For a time, during my time out
of mind, Deer was a companion, too.

Let's welcome our animal
teachers home; they have much to share if we're willing to listen, as do the
plant and mineral "kindoms" (that's kingdom minus the "g",
illuminating how we are all kin; note how Kindom also contains the word
"Kind").

Healing — and medicine — is
only painful if we believe it needs to be. When we ingest the insights other
realities and companions offer us, transformation can be uplifting, even
wondrous — regardless of our physical state of health. I know.

I'll be delving deeper into
Robert's work and where we are on our collective journey in the September issue
of my inspirational enewsletter, What Shines, out next
week!

Friday, August 08, 2014

I'm riveted by the
futuristic tour-de-force M.D. Waters
has showered on our evolutionary synapses with her twin suspense novels,
Archetype and Prototype, in which the protagonist clone displays more humanity
than many of her human counterparts.

These are apt reads for now.

While we've transcended our
Armageddon apprehension and traveled beyond the tide of history, the past can
still be instructive. Since a number of ancient civilizations were quite
enlightened compared with our own, it behooves us to ask, "What
happened?"

Prolific researcher and
author Barbara Hand Clow posits an
extraordinary scenario concerning humanity's regression, split from Nature, and
imminent return to wholeness in The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and
Awakening the World Mind.

Based on the work of
scientific historian D.S. Allan and geologist/astronomer J.B. Delair, she
hypothesizes that not only did a cataclysm circa 9500 BC plunge us from unity
consciousness into duality and survival mode, which is still encoded in our
limbic brains, but that the reconfiguration of the world at that time created
tectonic plates, forming a planet with 20 faces: an icosahedron. She writes,
"Icosahedrons are one of the five Platonic solids, the geometrical shapes
that are the basis of how matter is formulated. In other words, Earth
transmuted into sacred geometry 11,500 years ago."

These words electrified me
to the core: an ancient cellular memory trigger.

We can only perceive the
true nature of power through understanding the power of Nature. Clow states
that until we return to the symbiotic relationship with Creation that we once
enjoyed, we will not fully inhabit a World Mind, because this unity extends to
all life on earth, not just humans.

Caroline Casey touched on
the same theme in her radio
show, when she spoke of how "respect trumps fear" in the natural
world, and discussed the way animals metabolize trauma by trembling, which
frees them to resume their normal behavior. Synchronistically, just prior to
her show I'd caught the final moments of another program, on which the guest was
discussing EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), a technique
that enables people to reprogram their brains from trauma.

Kenny Ausubel, co-founder of
the Bioneers Conference, suggests we try biomimicry: see Nature as teacher
rather than resource, and ask, "What would Nature do? How can we wed human
ingenuity to the wisdom of the wild?"

From Egocentric to
Ecocentric

What does respect for the
natural world look like? Marine acoustician Michael
Stocker gives a stunning example of a man living on the Hawaiian island of
Molokai who helped a beached shark return to the ocean. The Samaritan
explained, "I like to swim out to a distant rock. There are a lot of
hammerheads in the water, and now I've got credit."

This is a remarkable
perspective compared with the more typical separation and fear to which we're
accustomed — and a shift that is becoming easier to embrace as we draw nearer
to what Clow calls galactocentric consciousness. She prophesies that within a
decade we will transcend our reliance on technology as a means of mass
communication and become a truly telepathic global society, just as
"primitive" people were many thousands of years ago. Since I've
always maintained that the Internet is our precursor to global telepathy, her
words were a gratifying substantiation.

If the implications of an
ancient reconfiguring cataclysm cause your circuitry to go haywire, download
this: paleoscientific research indicates that "early humans showed no
signs of being aware of the existence of the four seasons until 10,000 years
ago." The cataclysmic event
created Earth's variable rotation — or wobble — which gives rise to climatic
changes. Our planet Herself underwent a trauma and ever since, she
"trembles", bringing us the phenomenon of seasonal shifts. As above,
so below.

Clow writes, "I believe
the tilting axis inspired a preliterate scientific revolution that we are
decoding in our times. The axial tilt changed the way we receive light on
Earth…Megalithic astronomy, as well as indigenous astronomy, suggests that the
Light is more potent and transmutative for humans during the equinoxes,
solstices, and new and full moons. Perhaps that intentional attunement awakens
cosmic intelligence. Perhaps a new evolutionary form began when the tilting
axis cracked Earth open, as if Earth were a cosmic egg ready to hatch in the
universe."

The ultimate key to coming
home to ourselves as One people, one destiny, ready to rejoin the Universal
collective, may lie in what peaceable cultures have always known: from the pain
that cracks our hearts wide open, compassion and kindness flower. Naomi Shihab
Nye's poem Kindness eloquently
expresses this "proper dose of poignancy," a universal salve not
salvo.

Changing the weather of our
hearts alters the climate of civilization. It's a subtle shift we're quite
capable of making as we travel at Light speed into the Age of Aquarius. Like
Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, we've had the power to return Home all the time —
but we must discover it for ourselves.

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